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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth


Lucretius

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What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
CHRIS D'LACEY We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE ...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic cultur...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nation...
MURIEL BARBERY The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction ...
FRANCES MOORE LAPPE The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into...
SAVION GLOVER Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
ZHUANGZI Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
CHUANG TZU What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEPHEN WRIGHT Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the...
LAO TZU Black and white seems a journey into space which is destined back to earth.
VIKRMN Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
GEORGE CARLIN When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the...
LEIF ENGER If we don’t see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creatin...
ILCHI LEE From the Earth to the Moon.
DAVE FOLEY For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 mi...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Man is called into the exploration of the earth.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all tha...
RON GARAN Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eter...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON It's meditative. It takes you back to the earth and back to the roots.
DAVID GREEN I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.
TINIE TEMPAH The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
LORD BYRON There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are peo...
THE TALMUD Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS The further away from Earth you get, the less plausible it is to talk about the similarities of life...
ALFRED MCEWEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
AUGUSTUS HARE All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment
FRENCH PROVERB The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked...
N.T. WRIGHT Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
DAVID HARE If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth
HARRY S TRUMAN Welcome back to Earth after a fantastic flight.
SCOTT ALTMAN Everybody sort of came back down to earth.
HANK DAVIS Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
FRANCIS W. NEWMAN Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise ...
BUZZ ALDRIN It will be a symbolic step of life from Earth, leaving Earth, and growing somewhere else.
CHRIS MCKAY We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W.H. AUDEN We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know
W. H. AUDEN Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Tr...
ILCHI LEE The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; an...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The best investment on earth is earth.
LOUIS J. GLICKMAN Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!
MAXIMILLIAN DEGENEREZ I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to h...
N.T. WRIGHT To be born again is to bring the earth back to his rule
SUNDAY ADELAJA A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's when we walk the earth that we are actually flying in the sky.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it whenHe's been away from home a week, and then ...
WILL CARLETON Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you think of the Earth as a rubber ball, it is still kind of squished, ... As this 'rubber ball' ...
CHRIS COX What on earth is that?
CRAIG STEWART It spreads around the Earth as a rock vapor cloud that eventually condenses and forms droplets that ...
DONALD LOWE You're not limited to the sky as seen from the Earth. You can actually go up into the sky and fly th...
MARK WEBB In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.
STEFAN EMUNDS From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE The earth is what we all have in common.
WENDELL BARRY The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
SUE MONK KIDD We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. AUDEN Stop the earth from spinning, I want to get off!
ANONYMOUS Lloyd could get down in two from off the earth.
TOMMY BOLT Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain...
SUNDAY ADELAJA For you to be of benefit on earth, you must learn the principles of converting an idea from the invi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary soc...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth fro...
RON GARAN You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate f...
BUZZ ALDRIN The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If the moon and the earth didn't pull away from and draw back too each other, in a cosmic tango, we ...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Even though consciousness doesn’t seem to be confined to the human brain within the skull, we do e...
ILCHI LEE Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, whi...
ILCHI LEE Awareness in its pure state is nonlocal; there’s no focal point in it. It is unbounded. Awareness,...
ILCHI LEE Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experience...
ILCHI LEE Conscience is the true power. It resides within us. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the ...
ILCHI LEE When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good...
ILCHI LEE Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.
LAUREL CLARK Song of myself
Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid...
WALT WHITMAN

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